[Treatment of acute pancreatitis and cholecystopancreatitis with accompanying diabetes mellitus].

A clinically reliable diabetes mellitus was present in 7.5% of 386 patients with pancreatitis and cholecystopancreatitis. In a number of these patients (6.4%) diabetes mellitus was an immediate aftermath of recurrent pancreatitis. After having carried out sugar tolerance test in 104 patients with pancreatitis and cholecystopancreatitis the authors showed a potential risk of the occurrence of diabetes mellitus. Only administration of simple insulin under a permanent laboratory control should be used. When determining the indications for operation one ought to remember about the possibility of the occurrence of pseudoperitoneal syndrome.